We want you and your family to Join us at Waimea for our ‘Ohana Volunteer Day
This volunteer program is geared towards families with younger kids as an opportunity for them to get involved, give back and learn.
The volunteer projects will generally be located in the botanical gardens and cultural sites. These opportunities will be for a maximum of 25 participants each day and will be open to all ages, but recommended to the parents with children under 12 years old.
RSVP are required to attend the event. Gloves and tools will be provided along with a project that is suitable to the group.
The basic schedule for one of these volunteer days will be:
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9:00am Volunteers Arrive sign waivers
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9:15am Volunteer group will participate in the oli protocol
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9:30am Arrive at Volunteer Site
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11:30am Volunteer project is finished, volunteers are encouraged to get lunch at our snack shop and then explore the valley.*
*All participants Earn free entry into the valley for the day and may sign up for an optional cultural activity after lunchtime.
To keep in line with the state guidelines regarding Covid, there are a few rules and systems in place for the volunteer events. The rules include things like maintaining social distancing, wearing masks in the visitors center and all indoor areas, proper sanitizing, and limiting group size. We follow these to protect everyone who visits or works here. We want to do our part to keep the case load in Hawaii low and keep our loved ones safe. Due to the major statewide spike in cases of the delta variant, we have introduced a new volunteer requirement effective as of October 1st 2021. We now require all participants 12 and older who will be volunteering at Waimea (both as individuals and in groups) to show either a negative Covid test from the past 48 hours or proof of vaccination. We are doing this to work with the Oahu Safe Access program (details here: https://www.oneoahu.org/safe-access-oahu/#patrons ). The documentation will need to be shown to me on the day of the event and I will check off each person. There is an exception for participants under 12 years of age, but no other exceptions can be made. I apologize for any inconvenience this might cause, but it is all part of the efforts being made by our management to reduce the risks faced by our staff, visitors, volunteers and local community, so we truly appreciate you doing your part to support this system. We will be sure to inform participants of any further changes and make sure that these rules are simple and relatively easy to follow.
